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C. M. Kornbluth

Lifespan
1923 – 1958
Nationality
American
Active
1941 – 1957
Works held
14

C. M. Kornbluth (1923–1958) packed a remarkable body of work into a short life. A member of the Futurians fan group as a teenager, he wrote coruscating, cynical stories, 'The Marching Morons', 'The Little Black Bag', and collaborated with Frederik Pohl on the satirical classic The Space Merchants. His savage wit and social insight made him one of the sharpest writers of his generation before his death from a heart attack at just thirty-four.

The works

  1. 1957
    Cover of Wolfbane Wolfbane
  2. 1956
    Cover of The Engineer The Engineer
  3. 1955
    Cover of A Town Is Drowning A Town Is Drowning
  4. 1954
    Cover of Search the Sky Search the Sky
  5. 1953
    Cover of Everybody knows Joe Everybody knows Joe Cover of The Adventurer The Adventurer Cover of The Syndic The Syndic
  6. 1952
    Cover of The Altar at Midnight The Altar at Midnight Cover of The Luckiest Man in Denv The Luckiest Man in Denv
  7. 1951
    Cover of The Marching Morons The Marching Morons Cover of With These Hands With These Hands
  8. 1942
    Cover of Crisis! Crisis! Cover of Einstein's planetoid Einstein's planetoid
  9. 1941
    Cover of The Psychological Regulator The Psychological Regulator

Wrote across

1940s1950s

Recurring themes

Social SFDystopiaSpace OperaArtificial IntelligencePost-ApocalypticPsychic PowersUtopiaMilitary SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Bryce WaltonRandall GarrettRobert SilverbergStephen MarloweFrederik PohlGeorge O. SmithH. B. FyfeJim Harmon

Contemporaries writing in the same era

George O. SmithStephen MarloweRandall GarrettNelson S. BondBryce WaltonRobert SilverbergMurray LeinsterH. Beam PiperAlan Edward NourseAlfred Coppel

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